Coin-receiver for vending-machines.



No. 896,012. PATENTED AUG. 11, 1908.

W. C. HANSON. COIN RECEIVER I'CR VENDING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 28, 1908.

WILLIAM G. HANSON, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

COIN-RECEIVER FOR VENDING-MACHINES.

Application filed March 28, 1908.

Specificationof Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 11, 1908.

Serial No. 423,877. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. HANsON, a resident of Pittsburg, in thecounty of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Coin-Receivers for Ve1icling-\ lachii1es, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The primary object of this invention is to provide for the projecting ofcoins into vending machines and other coin apparatus in such manner thatthe coin is absolutely beyond the control of the operator after it haspassed from the coin receiver, and cannot be withdrawn.

A coin receiver has been proposed wherein a portion of the coin isexposed through the end of a coin passage, the bottom of the passagebeing inclined so that the coin will roll to and remain in this exposedposition. The operator then strikes the coin and projects it through thepassage and into the apparatus. This form of receiver is open to theobjection that a string or wire may be fastened to the coin and followit through the open end of the receiver and into the machine, thusrendering it easy to withdraw the coin after it has performed itsfunction.

The present embodiment is designed to obviate such fraudulent practicewithout materially changing the method of operation, the coin being heldby gravity in starting position and projected by the operator into themachine with greater or less force as desired. But instead of exposingthe coin to receive the projecting blow, a projecting device or knockeris movably mounted in the coin passage, in the preferred adaptationhaving limited swinging movement therein, and so arranged as tocompletely fill the heretofore open end of the passage and render itquite impossible for a wire or other retracting device to follow thecoin into the machine.

An adaptation of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings,Figure 1 being a side elevation of the receiver, and Fig. 2 a similarview with the face plate removed. Fig. 3 is an edge view. Fig. 4 is atop plan, and Fig. 5 a bottom plan. Fig. 6 is a crosssection on line 66of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, 2 designates the body of the casing which isflanged top and bottom to provide a coin passage or space within thecasing of the width required for a penny, five cent piece, or othercoin. The casing is closed by the face plate 3 riveted to the flanges asshown. It will be understood inserting slot 5, and on opposite sides arethe slots or openings 6 through which the coin O vmay be seen after itis dropped through slot 5. Bottom 7 of the coin passage slopesdownwardly toward the outer end of the re ceiver and directs and holdsthe coin into edgewise engagement with the coin projector.

I In the present embodiment, the projector consists of a flat piece ofmetal 8 pivoted at its upper end to the casing as indicated at 9, theprojector being positioned within and closing the outer end of the coinpassage formed within casing 2. The projector is so mounted that itsoutwardly rounded outer portion normally projects from the casing, withextension 8 at the lower end of the projector within slot 7 and bearingagainst the outer end 10 of the slot, while the inward movement of theprojector is arrested by said extension striking the inner end 10 of theslot. Thus said ends comprise stops between which the projector operatesand define the extent of movement thereof. Slot 7 is also of service inpreventing dirt from accumulating in the otherwise closed bottom of thepassage.

The operation will be obvious. After the coin has been inserted androlls to the full line position shown in Fig. 2 with its edge bearingagainst the pivoted projector, the extended portion of the latter isstruck by the operator and the coin thereby projected forwardly throughthe passage and into the machine. The coin may be passed forward at moreor less speed determined by the force of a blow on projector 8 and thusthrown a longer or shorter distance into the machine, at the pleasure ofthe operator. The projector so closes the end of the coin passage thatit is absolutely impossible to attach a wire or other retracting deviceto the coin. Fraudulent practice of this kind is impossible through theinserting slot 5, as with a cord or wire passed thereinto the coincannot be readily manipulated and withdrawn after it has been onceprojected into the machine.

I claim 1. The combination of a casing having a coin passage with acoin-inserting slot communicating with the passage, a coin projectingdevice having swinging movement within the coin passage and normallyprojecting from the passage, and means for limiting such movement.

2. The combination of a casing having a coin passage with acoin-inserting slot communicating with the passage, the passage openingthrough the outer end of the casing, a coin projector pivoted tooscillate within the open outer end with a portion of the projectornormally exposed at said end, and means for limiting such oscillatingmovement.

3. The combination of a casing having a coin passage with acoin-inserting slot oommunicating with the passage, said passage openingthrough the outer end of the casing, a coin projector'within the outerend of the passage and at its upper end pivoted to the casing, stopmeans for limiting the inward and outward movement of the projector, aportion of the projector being normally exposed through the open end ofthe passage.

4. The combination of a casing having a coin passage with acoin-inserting slot communicating with the passage, the passage openingthrough the outer end of the casing and the bottom of the passagesloping toward said end, a coin projector in the end of the passage andnormally partially extending therefrom, the projector being pivoted atits upper end to the casing, an extension on the lower end of theprojector, and two stops at the bottom of the passage between which theextension moves and defining the extent of movement of the projector.

5. The combination of a casing having a coin passage with a coininserting slot communicating with the passage, the passage shaped toholdan inserted coin normally in the outer portion thereof, and a coinpropelling device movable in the outer portion of the passage forprojecting the coin inwardly through said passage, the propelling devicebeing normally exposed to be struck by the operator.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WM. 0. HANSON.

Witnessesz J. M. NEsBIT, JNo. J. FITZGERALD.

